The winter 2011 period is very similar to a lot of other Wenger/Arsenal winter transfer windows in the respect that the club didn’t try and do any big business in terms of players coming or going.Summer 2011
Victory came out in the second half and looked bright. A red card to Archie Thompson for descent on the hour mark changed all that and for the fourth time this season Victory would have to finish the game with only 10 men.?Newcastle took this opportunity to ring the changes and brought on their Marquee player, Joel Griffiths. Griffiths is quality, one of the best players in the league for my money and he almost made an immediate impact by capitalizing on a mistake from Vargas, however he failed to take full advantage.
And with the league growing and its reputation improving, the players are at the beginning of the 2010 season. It’s an improbable possibility, but a possibility nonetheless. And it could deal a near-fatal blow for a league desperate to cash in on its progress in an unusually competitive domestic sports market. The National Hockey League survived similar action, but MLS is a young league. Momentum is key.The Legacy of the 2004 CBA
Mascherano is unproven in a European league and would have had the same problems as other players coming directly from South America in settling in . In comparison, Hargreaves would have had no such problems at all.